Mutimo H.Kawai & T.Kitayama, 2012

Holotype species: Mutimo cylindricus (Okamura) H.Kawai & T.Kitayama

Original publication and holotype designation: Kawai, H., Kogishi, K., Hanyuda, T. & Kitayama, T. (2012). Taxonomic revision of the genus Cutleria proposing a new genus Mutimo to accommodate M. cylindricus (Cutleriaceae, Phaeophyceae). Phycological Research 60: 241-248.

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Description: Gametophytes yellowish to dark brown in color, parenchymatous, cylindrical, branched, mostly epilithic, solitary or caespitose, attached with a small discoid holdfast, dichotomously or laterally branched, terminated with tufts of polystichous filaments; composed of medullary layer consisting of several large, colorless cells and cortical layer consisting of 12 layers of small pigmented cells. Each cell containing many discshaped chloroplasts without pyrenoids. Phaeophycean hairs present, usually grouped. Gametophytes normally dioecious, forming plurilocular gametangia scattered on the surface of the thalli. Locules of female gametangia are significantly larger than those of male gametangia. Sporophytic thalli crustose, parenchymatous, with marginal meristematic cells, forming sessile, cylindrical unilocular zoidangia on the surface. Distinguished from Cutleria in having cylindrical gametophytes terminating with polystichous filaments.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-08-20 by Michael Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 August 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024